To improve the handling Twitter has announced an innovation in the answers to tweets. "Starting today, you can hide answers to your tweets," writes the US company. "Out of sight, out of mind."
Starting today, you can now replicate to your tweets. Out of sight, out of mind. Pic.twitter.com/0Cfe4NMVPj
- Twitter (@ Twitter) November 21, 2019Anyone who feels offended by replies to their own entries or considers them to be unfit for the subject could hide them in the future, wrote Twitter on Thursday. Users should feel "safe and comfortable when talking on Twitter."
Users are controversial about the innovation: many welcome the feature as a means of "mitigation", others criticize it as a "censorship button".
Visible again at the click of a mouse
The new function should help to exclude offensive or inflammatory contributions from the discussion. This will give users "more control" over the discussions they start. However, every user can make such hidden answers visible again with a mouse click. In this way, according to Twitter censorship is to be prevented.
Twitter had recently tested the feature in several countries and found that the hidden responses were actually tweets that were rated as "irrelevant, past the topic or bullying".
In discussions on Twitter, it often happens that users gradually abandon the topic with their responses to a post, or greatly influence the conversational tone of the conversation. Twitter is always faced with demands to be more consistent with inappropriate content. It would now be tested in the future, other options, such as who can see certain conversations and then respond to it, announced the service.